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Wahh I'm back sorry sorry. School stuff. Wiinter concert coming up

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CLYTEMNESTRA: What bloody Trojan followed thee from thence To kill thee here, could he not one night Have let me rested in thy sweet embraces? Must he for surenesse make so many holes For thy sweet soule to flye to be a God?

- Thomas Goffe, The Tragedy of Orestes (1633) Act I Scene vi

This is such a ridiculous play. It’s great.

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favourite faces for favourite mythic ladies: Clytemnestra with Carice Van Houten

Agamemnon took her as an unwilling wife but should have chosen meeker prey: A Daughter of Sparta, a sister to Helen, the mother of a murdered child, Klytaimnēstra took her bloody revenge. She handles that double-bladed ax without skill, but fury makes it lethal. What does Clytemnestra care for a little blood on her clothes?

Let me lay waste to thee.

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On the loose again, it seems, whirling around OUTSIDE the house. And all this because Aegisthus isn’t here— At least he keeps you behind the gates prevents you from bringing shame on your family. How many things have you said to how many people? How cruel I am, unjust how I crush you with my hubris you and yours. The fact is: I have no hubris The harsh words I use with you are provoked by yours: It’s always FATHER with you, no one else and that he was killed by me. By me: yes: I know I killed him I never deny it. But I wasn’t alone because JUSTICE took him not I on my own. And you would have assisted her if you’d had any sense. Because this father of yours the one you snivel over without respite was the only one of the Greeks who could go so far— who could bring himself to— SACRIFICE your sister, your blood sister. He may have fathered her but he didn’t suffer the pains I did bringing her into this world. And that was to go unpunished?

Clytemnestra - Elektra by Sophocles trans. Timberlake Wertenbaker

this is the monologue I’ve chosen to workshop with Olympia Dukakis may she unlock the goddess within amen

(via harinef)

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Oresteia, Aeschylus

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Res est profecto stulta nequitae modus. Committing just a little sin is definitely stupid.

Clytemnestra, from Seneca’s Agamemnon (via katiusrex)

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Driven by lust 

Clytemnestra was the daughter of the king and queen of Sparta, Leda and Tyndareus. Zes, the form of a swan, come down and raped Leda impregnating her, and on that same night Tyndareus impregnated her two, leaving Leda with two fertilized eggs. Leda birthed four offsprings: Castor & Clytemnestra being fathered by Tydareus and Helen & Polyduces fathered by Zeus. Brothers Agamemnon & Menelaus being family friends with Tydareus, in time married his daughters. Helen Menelaus' bride and Clytemnestra being Agamemnon's. In a late version of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis Clytemnestra's first husband was said to be Tantalus, King of Pisa who was slain by Agamemnon, who also killed her infant son and forcibly made her his wife.

The Trojan war lasted 10 years and within that time frame, with Agamemnon gone, Clytemnestra began an affair with Aegisthus, Agamemnon's cousin. Before the Greeks set off for Troy, through gods and omens, priest Calchas said that the winds would be favorable if Aganemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia. Clytemnestra found out and grieved over her lost child. In some writings, it was told that she waited until Agamemnon was in the bath then she entangled him with a cloth net and stabbed him, still enraged by Iphigenia's murder. After the murderof Aganemnon, Aegisthus took the throne with Clytemnestra as his queen, the two ruling for seven years. Some stories read that they had three children: a son Aletes, and daughters Erigone and Helen. Clytemnestra's personality differs between tellings, one being weak and submissive (Homer's Clytemnestra), or ruthless and manipulative (Aeschylus' Clytemnestra). This affects her role in the relationship with Agamemnon.